Ever since the web began to evolve out of its infancy from the mid to late 90’s online communities in one form or another have existed and flourished. Today we’ve taken the very same fundamental concepts of our ancestry and we have managed to build socially thriving networks that cater to a variety of individuals. […]
Diving Into The User Interface With Fundamental Questions
The charismatic process of designing a user interface is one that requires not only the adequate skills, but understanding of an effective user to application relationship. Engineering an effective user interface means you should place focus on certain parameters that will allow you to build a set of accomplished user goals. Everything from the visual […]
Best of Breadcrumbs and How They Enhance Your Website
Breadcrumb navigation offers a visually enticing way for users to keep track and know where they’re specifically located as they navigate your site. Overall, it increases the usability of your website, especially if it has various pages that need to be organized and structured in a certain hierarchical order. More than often breadcrumbs are usually […]
Inline Expansion – Why And Where To Use It
When you hear the words “Inline Expansion” you probably think of a jQuery accordion. In essence that’s correct, but entirely dependant of its functionality. The act of expanding content vertically or horizontally allows us to show important data we’d like our users to pay attention to. Essentially focus is a critical factor as we only […]
40 Inspiring And Creative Mac DMG Designs
Have you ever downloaded an application on your Mac from the web and a nifty-looking window pops-up asking you to double click or drag the icon to the applications folder in order to complete the setup? This is a DMG file – also known as ‘Apple Disk Image’ – ultimately it allows the application to […]
An Inspirational Showcase That Will Change How You Display Data
Information Graphics or as we’ve come to know them Infographics allow us to visualize relative data in the form of graphics for a much easier understanding of complex information. These amazingly illustrative and informative data visualizations can be explained using a variety of colors, objects such as maps, signs, and typographic elements. Many of them […]
Improving The User Experience Of Your Website With Modal Windows
With new elements of design trending the web it’s no surprise a large portion of these aim towards enhancing the user experience. What better way to help create a more usable environment then to start by properly structuring the way your users interact with key aspects of your websites (i.e. the login process)? This is […]
24 Steps-Left Pages That Enhance The User Registration Process
The registration process should entail simplicity, great usability and a high-level of accessibility. With numerous sites wanting to focus on how attractive and eye-catching their sign-up forms are, they seem to “forget” one principle; how the user interacts with the registration form. Below we’ve included a showcase of inspiration that solely focuses on one simple […]
5 Tips for Conveying The Right Information to Clients
Effectively conveying any form of information to your clients is not only good practice, but it is vital. If you’re not equipped with the right communicative skills, then you’re more likely to loose clients rather then gain them. Whether it’s you or your client that takes the first step in communicating, you need to understand […]
10 Really Outstanding and Useful CSS Grid Systems
Grids are an invisible foundation that structure the websites we develop and design. This invisible foundation makes it possible for rapid development, concise code, and a much more organized layout. Of course you’re not obligated to use a grid, and grid-less websites are fine if the random structure is intended, however, if avoidance of a […]